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On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here are 22 papers by researchers from the (broader) degrowth community published just the last year!
I give these in no particular order. And they range from the most quantitative to the most ethnographic or the most philosophical (disclaimer: I am in involved in 4). These are papers that I happened to read. I am sure I miss many more - please add at the end of the thread!
I wont summarise the papers. Take a look at the abstracts. And if you don't have access to the full paper, email the first author for a copy. In the degrowth community we are happy to share our research. So, here we go, let's start the countdown! 22 papers to go :)
1.Scientists' warning on affluence https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y?fbclid=IwAR0AG6Lz_CcR2XY0uxVvKNmjnlWP0YLXl6iBcUfl8gcZmTjR7-ZVb3W3oes
2. Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchangehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800920300938
3. Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdownhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519620301960
4. Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labourhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7f63
5. The dangers of decouplinghttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1758-5899.12791
6.Degrowth and the State https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180091831749X
7. Environmental Justice, Degrowth and Post-capitalist futureshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180091930597X
8. Degrowth and critical agrarian studieshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2019.1695601
9.Degrowth through income and wealth caps https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918314836
10.What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918301228
11.A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918318391
12.The Labor(s) of degrowth https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300
13.Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800919304744
14.Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence: Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848618819478
15.First Nations sovereignty, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth in Northwest BC, Canada https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918303100
16.Degrowth and the Unmaking of Capitalism https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1790
17.The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619835135
18.Climate Change and the Polanyian Counter-movement: Carbon Markets or Degrowth? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2017.1417364
19.Structure, action and change: a Bourdieusian perspective on the preconditions for a degrowth transition https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2020.1754693
20.A Green New Deal without growth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919319615
http://21.Is green growth possible? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
22. Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619841809
These were only papers published after 2019! For a review of the degrowth literature before, check our 2018 "Research on Degrowth" https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941
Or the 2017 review by Weiss and Cattaneo - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916305900
For the older French literature on degrowth, a good review in English is found in a 2008 paper by Valerie Fournier "Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth' https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/01443330810915233/full/html / End of Thread - feel free to add other recent papers below.
